The WRC team

The WRC core team is made up of  experienced and skilled staff coming from backgrounds as diverse as organisational psychology, computer science and regional development.  It is led by Richard Wynne and Kevin Cullen who founded WRC and who have international reputations in the areas of work and technology and work and health.

Dr Richard Wynne

Director

Richard Wynne (PhD.) was educated in Trinity College Dublin, and has worked in the area of occupational psychology as a researcher and consultant since 1981.  His work in the health field reflects his interest in structural features of the workplace as they affect health and wellbeing.  He has acted as consultant to a wide range of companies in Ireland and also internationally for the World Health Organisation, the Danish Work Environment Service, the European Commission, and health agencies in the UK and Germany.

Current and recent work includes examining return to work strategies for people who are long term absent, examining the relationship between occupational health services and the policies related to employability.  He is also involved in projects on the issue of stress-related absence from work (Stress Impact), the employability of people with disabilities (Optiwork) and examining how social exclusion is caused by chronic illness.

He is currently managing the Reintegrate project, which is developing training for enterprises in the area of return to work, while he has major roles in projects which are developing training inrelation to workplace health age management and workplace health promotion.  Other interests relate to the role of ICT in the ageing workforce.

Kevin Cullen

Director

Kevin Cullen is one of the two founder Directors of WRC.  He has worked in socio-economic research and consultancy throughout his career.  In the 1980s and 1990s he was especially active in the field of local development, including the first analyses, inventories and policy assessments in the area (for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, AnCo and the European Community Development Exchange).  He also has extensive experience and expertise in relation to ageing and older people, including ageing and technology (assistive technology and the Information Society), carers and caring and health and social service innovation.  He has led and directed many projects at Irish and European levels.

Ciarán Dolphin

Senior Research Consultant

Ciarán Dolphin is a senior research consultant at WRC currently collaborating in EU funded work related to the information socieyt, accessibility and disability.  He has qualifications in both the natural and human sciences from the National University of Ireland (Dublin) and a higher degree in mathematical psychology from the University of Stirling (UK) on the modelling of cognitive processes.  His early work was on human psychobiology, in the areas of cardiovascular psycho-physiology and the psychobiology of stress processes.  He has worked on the statistical analysis of many datasets relating to all of WRC's work, designing and conducting experiments and analysing and reporting on large survey data.

Sarah Delaney

Senior Research Consultant

Sarah Delaney is a senior research consultant at WRC with extensive experience in health and social services research.  She graduated from Queen's University, Belfast with a BA in Social Anthropology in 1996.  In 1999 she completed a Masters of Science Degree in Applied Social Research at University of Dublin, Trinity College.  Key areas of experience include ageing and older people, public participation in health and social care, service delivery models in health and social care, carers and caring, women's health and ethnicity and health.  Her work in this area has included a broad range of qualitative and participatory research, policy analysis and teaching.

Dónal McAnaney

Research Consultant

Isabelle Jeffares

Research Consultant

Isabelle Jeffares joined WRC in April, 2008.  She graduated from the American College, Dublin in 2004 with a BA in Psychology.  In 2005 she received a Diploma in Criminal and Forensic Psychology from Dublin Business School.  Following this she completed a Masters of Science degree in Applied Social Research, graduating in 2007 from University of Dublin, Trinity College.  Her areas of expertise include cognition and ageing, quantitative data analysis and statistics.

Anne O'Herlihy

Office Administrator

Anne O'Herlihy has worked with WRC since 1999 as Office Administrator. Her duties include general reception duties, office management, organising travel arrangements and meetings/user fora.  She also provides project support and data entry as required.

Shiela Hillis

Accountant

Shiela Hillis has worked for over 25 years as WRCs accountant, looking after all project and business accounts.